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How the Devin AI software developer 'might' be a scam

saying that an artificial intelligence is autonimous is one thing, showing that it is indeed the case is another.

the closing line of the video tells viewers to sent in tasks, so Devin can handle those tasks unseen and send you the results.

okay... but if it really is doing all of this in time, why not just live stream the process at work?

and if deep learning is being used, you should have results you can use, that show the steps the ai took at each decision, a la a teacher asking a student to show their working, so that they can see that they didn't use a cheat sheet, or in this case, that a human operator on the other end didn't do the work for them.

they showed us a prerecorded video of the problem being solved, by now we should know that through the wonders of television, time can seemingly skip ahead by editing out the time between.

they give no explanation as to how Devin solves the issues, they only state that ai can do that you know, which holds as much weight as an illusionist saying it's just magic.

until we can see Devin being given a task and solving it in real time, and a results screen to show the path of deep learning it used, Devin is about as believable an ai software as any sci-fi movie robot.